Registration is open until Feb. 15 for students in a new season of growing at the Tsawwassen First Nation Farm School.

It is a unique collaboration between the First Nation and the Institute for Sustainable Food Systems at Kwantlen Polytechnic University that fuses sustainable agriculture and traditional
indigenous food systems.

“Anyone can attend TFN Farm School,” said Corrine Singfield. “There are no prerequisites or exams. All you need is a desire to grow some serious food in a sustainable way.”

The nine-month, part-time program teaches the art and science of small scale organic farming and direct marketing in a hands-on way. Learning and growing takes place at the 20-acre organic working farm on the nation’s traditional lands.

The farm boasts a traditional medicine garden, a mixed fruit orchard and market garden, animals including chickens and pigs as well as incubator plots on which program graduates can launch their own farm-related businesses.

More information at www.kpu.ca/tfnfarm